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Strategic Health is working together
with Medical Destination (Thailand)
LTD. to offer a full range of
cost-effective, expertly managed
medical services! Click
here for more information! |
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Global Health Care: U.S. News Article:
Saving on Surgery by Going Abroad |
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Strategic Health
Development Corporation is pleased to announce
an agreement with International Managed Care
Services (IMCS) to provide a network for all
organ transplants in Puerto Rico. |
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We are pleased to
announce the promotion of Dr. Barbara Freeman to
Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. Neil Kaplan,
Board Certified in Cardiology and Internal
Medicine, will assume the role of Strategic
Health’s Medical Director, along with Associate
Medical Director Dr. Lisa Maercks-Nagle.
Laura Westfall
will head up Disease Management and Health
Education for our clients in Arizona. Laura is
a Family Nurse Practitioner that serves as
Adjunct Faculty for Arizona State University and
practices at Internal Medicine Physicians
Associates in Phoenix.
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We are please to
announce the addition of Dr. Lisa Maercks-Nagle
to our staff as Assistant Medical Director!
Dr. Maercks-Nagle
is a Staff Physician in the Emergency Department
at St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware
and is Board certified in Emergency Medicine.
She has experience practicing in Emergency
Departments all over the United States and is
proficient in several languages. During her
career she has had many professional
affiliations, including the following: American
College of Emergency Physicians, Emergency
Medicine Residents Association (including time
as Representative for State of Delaware), The
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine,
American Medical Association, Delaware Medical
Association, and American Medical Students
Association (including time as a Region 5
Trustee and sitting on the Board of Directors).
We are very
excited to have her join our team at Strategic
Health Development Corporation. Our Medical
Director, Dr. Barbara Freeman, is looking
forward to having Dr. Maercks-Nagle assistance
with our rapidly growing company!
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We would like to
welcome our newest client,
Southwest Service Administrators, Inc. We
look forward to working with such an elite group
of people! |
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SIIA Washington Counsel, George Pantos, Health
Improves
MyHealthGuide Source: SIIA, 11/11/06,
www.SIIA.org
George Pantos,
General Counsel, Washington Counsel for
Self-Insurance Institute of America, has
experienced health problems recently. However,
he has improved and expects to return home and
to work soon.
George's health condition was complicated and
progress was slow. However, his recovery was
greatly assisted by expert physician oversight
provided by Barbara Freeman, MD, FAAFP,
Medical Director for
Strategic Health Development Corporation.
Nigel Wallbank, President of SIIA
and President/CEO of Strategic Health says, "It
was an honor for us to provide this oversight
care to George. We have the highest respect for
George and what he has done for SIIA and our
industry. We jumped at the chance to help him."
James A. Kinder, CEO, SIIA, said,
"George's return to health was too slow, I
thought. Our industry has tremendous resources
to help in this situation, so I called Nigel
asked his advice. Immediately, he and Strategic
Health had resources working to review George's
situation."
Dr. Freeman began working with George, the
Pantos family and his attending physicians.
Together, they reviewed George's care plan, made
adjustments, and made arrangements for him to
return home. As he improves, he will begin
working from his home on special projects to
advance SIIA's legislative agenda.
"I will be meeting with George to go over
special SIIA assignments to assist us in
building a strategy to deal with the new
congress to make sure SIIA's interest are
advanced and heard loud and clear," said Kinder.
"Of course, we will be careful not to overburden
George, but I am confident, he will be back to
his argumentative self in a few short weeks."
"We owe a BIG thanks to Dr. Freeman and all of
Nigel's team in their help in making this all
possible," added Kinder.
About SIIA
The Self-Insurance
Institute of America, Inc. (SIIA) is the
national association dedicated exclusively to
protecting and promoting the self-insurance and
alternative risk transfer industry. Since its
founding in 1981, the association has grown
significantly and now includes members from
virtually every state and several countries
around the world. Major membership
constituencies include self-insured employers
(healthcare and workers' compensation), group
self-insured workers' compensation funds (SIFs),
third-party administrators (TPAs), managing
general underwriters (MGUs), excess/stop-loss
insurance carriers and a variety of other
companies involved in the alternative risk
transfer business. Visit
www.SIIA.org.
-Compliments of the Ernie Clevenger
report, MyHealthGuide Newsletter for the
Self-Funded Community dated 11/13/2006 -
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We are please to
announce the addition of Dr. Barbara Freeman to
our staff as Medical Director!
Dr. Freeman has
over 23 years experience as a medical officer
and over 28 years as a practicing physician in
rural Kentucky. Dr. Freeman has over 20 years
experience in UM/UR functions of managed care.
She has developed programs which enhance
member’s abilities to be more responsible for
their own care, engaged providers peer to peer
in the process and protected the fiduciary
responsibilities of the insuring entity. Dr.
Freeman has worked with all models of managed
care, providing leadership and securing URAC
accreditation in UM, Case Management, Telephone
Triage and Disease Management. She has been
appointed by the URAC Executive Committee to its
Accreditation Committee and serves as the
Co-Chair of JCAHO’s Health Plan Technical
Advisory Committee. Under her leadership a
comprehensive care coordination program has been
developed, which has particular applicability to
rural areas.
A significant
portion of Dr. Freeman’s career has been to
serve as Medical Director for government health
programs. Under her leadership, integrated
systems of care in support of local providers
were developed and implemented. Results from
these activities serve a consistent pattern of
meeting and exceeding Milliman and Robertson
standards, while involving the local providers
and assisting members in requiring appropriate
quality care.
Dr. Freeman has
served as a care management consultant and
speaker throughout the United States. She
inspires her audiences of friends, insurance
executives, community based organization
leaders, civil servants and elected officials to
seek the highest quality of care in the most
efficient and most effective manner possible.
Dr. Freeman was
previously the President and Chief Medical
Officer of National Health Services, Inc, a BCE
Emergis Corp., in Louisville, Kentucky. She is
currently the Chief Medical Officer for
Community Health Solutions of America, Inc. We
are very exited to have her join our team at
Strategic Health Development Corp! |
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Maxor to provide
specialty pharmacy services to Strategic Health Development Corporation members! Click
here for the press release! |
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Ernie Clevenger's MyHealthGuide
Newsletter for the Self-Funded Community:
www.myhealthguide.com/news.htm |
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To learn more, contact
1-800-874-2378 |
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